Muzzle Awards

Awards for activity against free speech

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The Jefferson Muzzle Awards are an award given in the United States by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression to people who are perceived to undermine freedom of speech.[1]

## The 2016 Jefferson Muzzle Awards

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For the first time in 25 years, the Jefferson Center expanded anti-free speech awards to 50 recipients, the 2016 award is also unique in the aspect that all of the recipients are colleges.[2][3]

> Never in our 25 years of awarding the Jefferson Muzzles have we observed such an alarming concentration of anti-speech activity as we saw last year on college campuses across the country.

> — The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression[4]

Conversely, the Jefferson Center commended the University of Chicago, American University, Purdue and Princeton University for issuing "broadest possible latitude" statements concerning speech policy on their campuses.[5]

* Alma College
* Amherst
* Brown
* Butler University
* Clemson University
* Colorado College
* Community College of Philadelphia
* Duke
* Emory
* Emporia State University
* George Washington University
* Hamilton College
* Harvard
* Kean University
* Kutztown University
* Le Moyne College
* Louisiana State University
* Loyola University Chicago
* Northern Michigan University
* Northwestern
* Norwich University
* Oberlin College
* Old Dominion University
* Princeton University
* Saint Louis University
* Santa Barbara City College[6]
* Smith College
* Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
* St. John Fisher College
* SUNY Buffalo
* Texas Christian University
* Texas Tech
* UCLA
* University of California System
* University of California-Berkeley
* University of Mary Washington
* University of Minnesota
* University of Missouri
* University of Missouri School of Law
* University of North Texas
* University of Oklahoma
* University of Oregon
* University of San Diego
* University of Southern California
* University of Tulsa
* Utica College
* Wesleyan University
* Williams College
* Yale
* Youngstown State

## The 2017 Jefferson Muzzle Awards

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* The administration of Boca Raton Community High School
* The State Government of Illinois
* The California State Legislature and Governor Jerry Brown
* Florida's Collier County School District
* The United States Senate
* Bradley County (Tennessee) Sheriff Eric Watson
* The United States Olympic Committee
* The Pierce College Administration and the Los Angeles Community College
* North Carolina's Cumberland County School Superintendent, Frank Till, Jr.

## The 2018 Jefferson Muzzle Awards

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* Kearny High School (Missouri)
* U.S. Capitol Police
* Windfern High School Principal Martha Strother
* Starkville, Mississippi Board of Aldermen
* Oregon State Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying
* Parkway High School Principal Waylon Bates
* Herriman High School (Utah)

## See also

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* Freedom of speech portal

* William O. Douglas Prize

## References

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1. ^ "The Jefferson Muzzles". Archived from the original on 21 February 2016.
2. ^ "The 2016 Jefferson Muzzle Awards". The Thomas Jefferson Center. Archived from the original on 24 April 2016. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
3. ^ "25th Annual Jefferson Muzzles Awards Announces 'Winners'". NBC29. 20 April 2016. Archived from the original on 21 April 2016. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
4. ^ STEVE SZKOTAK (19 April 2016). "Long list of colleges awarded 'Jefferson Muzzles' for limiting free speech". The Seattle Times. Associated Press. Archived from the original on 21 April 2016. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
5. ^ DEREK QUIZON (20 April 2016). "Efforts to stifle speech by colleges, students 'honored' with Jefferson Muzzle Awards". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
6. ^ Brugger, Kelsey (March 16, 2015). "Tempest in a Teepee at SBCC". Santa Barbara Independent. Archived from the original on 19 March 2015. Retrieved 2016-06-30.
7. ^ "2017 Muzzles". tjcenter.org. Archived from the original on 8 May 2018. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
8. ^ "Jefferson Muzzles". Jefferson Muzzles. Archived from the original on 18 March 2018. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
9. ^ "Jefferson Muzzles". Jefferson Muzzles. Archived from the original on 11 May 2018. Retrieved 31 May 2024.